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The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1861., [Electronic resource] 5 1 Browse Search
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The alleged Census document distribution. --We have received a letter from Mr. J. C. G. Kennedy, Superintendent of the Census Bureau at Washington, which, as he requests, would be published but for the heavy pressure on our columns this morning. A condensation of its contents will answer the purpose. On the 30th ult., Messrs. Bocock, Garnett and Jenkins, of Virginia, propounded a series of questions to Mr. Kennedy, which were answered by the following statements: That the Superintendent was not aware of any Clerk directing political documents in office hours; that he had allowed the use of the record of names in his office to the Breckinridge and Laents were directed by Clerks of the Census Department, it was out of office rooms and hours, and by Clerks who volunteered to do it. In a letter to the editors, Mr. Kennedy states, with reference to obtaining information of the expected result in Virginia to-day, that he only used that information "to induce the Republicans to real
al corrected, for the reason that an important and essential part of the resolutions did not appear, and, second, because by the action of the House the House had determined to entertain the question hereafter, and it ought to be put on the journal. The Speaker overruled the question. Mr. Pendleton appealed from the decision of the Chair. The decision was sustained by a vote of 74 to 20. Mr. Wilson sent to the Clerk to be read a letter, purporting to have been written by J. C. G. Kennedy, Superintendent of the Census Bureau, addressed to Jacob Thompson, late Secretary of the Interior Department, which was read with the accompanying resolution. And whereas, The said Kennedy has written other letters and hold communications exhibiting a want of sympathy with the Government in the present struggle. Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire whether the said Kennedy is the author of the said letter, and whether the other statement